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Apple has opened exploratory talks with senior label executives about the possibility of launching an on-demand streaming service that would rival Spotify and Beats Music, according to three people familiar with the talks. Apple is also thinking about adding an iTunes App for Android phones, the Google rival that has been growing faster than the Continue Reading →

Comcast negotiated an easy escape hatch if regulators put too much heat on the $45.2 billion merger with Time Warner Cable, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. According to the S4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, Comcast will not owe Time Warner Cable a breakup fee if the deal falls through Continue Reading →

“Twitter, mwitter!” Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cried on Thursday. Rough translation: Twitter, schmitter! This was the last thing Erdogan said Thursday before the lights went out on Twitter near midnight. “We now have a court order,” declared Erdogan, who’s ensnared in a scandal inflamed by social media over recordings that purportedly reveal corruption Continue Reading →

By now, you’ve heard at least a dozen times… through a variety of mediums, that Microsoft will end support of its XP operating system on April 8. If you’re like most people, you probably experienced one of three reactions: confusion, skepticism or excitement. The truth is that all of those reactions are warranted. It’s true Continue Reading →

What will Twitter look like in a year? Two years? A lot less like itself. At least that’s the impression Vivian Schiller, head of news at Twitter, gave addressing the crowd two days ago at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange conference in Denver. During her talk, Schiller called at-replies and hashtags “arcane” and hinted Continue Reading →

Data.gov is getting a whole lot greener thanks to its new section dedicated to climate information. The new channel is the product of President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative, and pulls information that can help predict the effects of climate change and prevent any damage that may result. The raw data comes from the likes of Continue Reading →

Social network Twitter is using its upcoming 8th birthday to help users discover their first tweets. Twitter launched a website called first-tweets.com, allowing users to search their own account or other accounts to find their first tweet. Users are also encourage to use the hashtag #FirstTweet. “Millions of prolific tweeters have made Twitter an exciting, Continue Reading →

Nearly two years after the launch of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, we’re still waiting for a fully touch-optimized version of arguably the company’s most important product: Office. For iPad users, though, the wait is about to end. While it might seem odd for Microsoft to launch an iPad version of Office before taking care of its Continue Reading →

The more time you spend on the internet, the more you realize that some things should be a tiny bit easier than they actually are. Here are a handful of sites I use a lot to make my day-to-day comings and goings on the internet a little bit easier, quicker and less stressful. (1) isup.me Continue Reading →

Dropbox will let you manage separate work and personal accounts on all of your devices next month, The Verge has learned. In advance of an April 9th press event, the company has notified users of its Dropbox for Business product that they will soon be able to access personal and work Dropbox files without logging Continue Reading →